CaptJodan wrote:The same coverage those in Congress get themselves? Shit.
Holy fuck! Congress has better health insurance than when I worked for Blue Cross!
Hell YES I want that!
Also, another one of my favorites: "What does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush is right 90% of the time?"
I like that he didn't shrink from talking about real problems. I liked that he talked about what he intended to do to solve those problems. I liked that he verbally kicked McCain in the teeth.
But most of all, I liked that he talked of hope - that we can fix our problems, that we can do better.
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Jesus...That was the best political speech I've ever seen in my life.
I think he may have convinced one of my republican roommates to vote for him.
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Are you channeling my wife or something? Her words exactly.
The only, ONLY thing I wish Barack had done, that he didn't do, was when he was pounding away at Iraq and Al Qaeda. He should have finished that section of his speech off by looking right into the camera and saying:
"Osama Bin Laden, I have a special message just for you. Get your affairs in order, because come January 21st we're coming for you, and there's nowhere in the world you can hide this time."
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CaptJodan wrote:Most of the night, MSNBC has been reporting the difficulty that McCain is having getting 10,000 people in Dayton Ohio, resorting to giving away free tickets. It's a stark contrast, but then I guess that's just because he's a celebrity.
I'd actually like to go, but I don't have a day off that I can take.
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Over the last month, as McCain and the GOP attack machine have mobilized in full force and the media has made so much of division in the party, my faith in Obama's prospects have waned somewhat.
Now, I feel like I haven't felt since the final days of the primaries. Barack Obama will win this election, and I'll be damned if I don't try to help him do it.
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Too late, I thought of asking my TV Production teacher if we could take a crew out to cover the convention - though the odds of us getting the first week off school to go from Chicago to Denver were probably pretty slim anyway.
Maybe I should try for the Republican Convention as a consolation prize - a mean one though, given the kind of "inspiration" McSame is going to produce.
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Scottish Ninja wrote:Too late, I thought of asking my TV Production teacher if we could take a crew out to cover the convention - though the odds of us getting the first week off school to go from Chicago to Denver were probably pretty slim anyway.
To say nothing of getting the credentials to actually be allowed inside the convention itself.
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Incidentally, is there the full speech anywhere online? I missed it because of timing constraints and I would rather like to see it considering I heard it made Chris Matthews cry.
Back on topic, I love the way Chris Matthews is acting. Immediately after the speech he said something along the lines of "He inspires me. And to hell with my critics." Which made the crowd behind him go nuts.
CNN are un-fucking-believable. They're quoting Obama as saying McCain doesn't care when in the video they're tagging he says exactly the opposite!
I think the only weakness was foreign policy - still good but perhaps some of the claims rang slightly hollow.
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MRDOD wrote:Incidentally, is there the full speech anywhere online? I missed it because of timing constraints and I would rather like to see it considering I heard it made Chris Matthews cry.
It's in fragments on CNN's site.
I love the smell of September in the morning. Once we got off at Richmond, walked up to the 'G, and there was no game on. Not one footballer in sight. But that cut grass smell, spring rain...it smelt like victory.
Dynamic. When [Kuznetsov] decided he was going to make a difference, he did it...Like Ovechkin...then you find out - he's with Washington too? You're kidding. - Ron Wilson
MRDOD wrote:Incidentally, is there the full speech anywhere online? I missed it because of timing constraints and I would rather like to see it considering I heard it made Chris Matthews cry.
Not quite, though you could definitely hear it in his voice.
The McCain campaign has already issued its rebuttal. From spokesman Tucker Bounds: “Tonight, Americans witnessed a misleading speech that was so fundamentally at odds with the meager record of Barack Obama. When the temple comes down, the fireworks end, and the words are over, the facts remain: Senator Obama still has no record of bipartisanship, still opposes offshore drilling, still voted to raise taxes on those making just $42,000 per year, and still voted against funds for American troops in harm’s way. The fact remains: Barack Obama is still not ready to be President.”
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The McCain campaign has already issued its rebuttal. From spokesman Tucker Bounds: “Tonight, Americans witnessed a misleading speech that was so fundamentally at odds with the meager record of Barack Obama. When the temple comes down, the fireworks end, and the words are over, the facts remain: Senator Obama still has no record of bipartisanship, still opposes offshore drilling, still voted to raise taxes on those making just $42,000 per year, and still voted against funds for American troops in harm’s way. The fact remains: Barack Obama is still not ready to be President.”
Interesting that they're not attacking the speech itself, just the speaker. I'm sure more detailed rebuttals are coming later, but it's interesting they make basically no attempt to rebut any of Obama's attacks.
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SirNitram wrote:Thread unlocked. Jesus Christ, if this is a preview of what I'll be doing this election season, I will fucking choke people with my extruding bowels.
Why was the thread locked (temporarily?)?
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MRDOD wrote:Incidentally, is there the full speech anywhere online? I missed it because of timing constraints and I would rather like to see it considering I heard it made Chris Matthews cry.
It's in fragments on CNN's site.
The fragments still don't add up to more than 16 minutes, unless I'm missing some. And I don't know what order they go in. Does no one just have a video of the bloody speech that doesn't cut out in the middle like MSNBC does?
Also, boo on CNN for lying and saying Obama said that McCain doesn't care when he actually said the opposite.
CaptainChewbacca wrote:Dang, I had to be somewhere 10 minutes after he started. IS there a torrent or something?
I don't know if it's too much to expect Youtube and the internets to get something up an hour after it's over, but it appears not. You can get the first half of the speech from MSNBC, but they randomly cut it by half (why? Sinister or just stupid? Probably the latter)
SirNitram wrote:Thread unlocked. Jesus Christ, if this is a preview of what I'll be doing this election season, I will fucking choke people with my extruding bowels.
Why was the thread locked (temporarily?)?
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